Eric Clapton Quotes

British - Musician Born: March 30, 1945

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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Father Wisdom Music Loneliness

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.

Family Myself Business Looking

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

Life Solitude Like Quiet

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

Spiritual Ground Playing Up

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Life Me My Life Blues

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Mind Your Leave Will

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

Music Village You Know

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

Myself Gift Way Greatest Gift

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

Believe Think Luck Know

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

Quality Guitar Voice Way

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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

I Am Always Blues Will

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

Music Tradition Responsibility You

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

Mouth Things Most How

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

King Place Blues Everything

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Me Desire Head Something

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

Good Music Me Time

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

You Control Trying Risk

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

Family Business Looking People

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.

Me People Feel Need

Music became a healer for me.

Music Me Healer Became

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

Love Gift Think Listening

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

Me People Guitar Sound

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

Music Me School Beginning

My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it.

Music Dedication Way End

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

Family Music Fear Me

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

Never Meet Want Met

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